English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University

Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

Stay up to date with our @Mac_ECS department!
We post stories, news, and features. Find us on:
📸https://t.co/5MrPS17Jts
👍https://t.co/mlJSWO7mfT
🐦https://t.co/kU7wPOjewg

You can also find all our links here: https://t.co/LSCfoifTBp
@mcmasterhum @mcmasteru #mcmasteru #hamont

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

We're delighted to announce that Dr. Gena Zuroski's new book, A Funny Thing: Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined, has just been published with Cambridge University Press!

Congratulations to Dr. Zuroski!

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sarah Brophy has won the 10th annual Hogan Prize which recognizes “an outstanding essay” for her essay “Mask Aesthetics: Prophylaxis, Post-Digital Arts, and Reimagining Vulnerable Selves.” Congratulations to Dr. Brophy!

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

🌟💫💕Delighted to share the happy news that Susie O'Brien has won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for her 2024 MQUP book What the World Might Look Like!

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

✨Congratulations to ESC PhD candidate Stephanie Rico, winner of the 2025 Timothy Dow Adams Award from a/b: Auto/Biography Studies! Her work explores moments of conviviendo (“living together”) and how photography and archiving foster change in Borderlands stories.

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

💕Lovely News! McMaster PhD Candidate Katie Waring has just had her article “RFK Wants to Send People to ‘Wellness Farms.’ The US Already Tried That” published in Teen Vogue! 💥

Article link: https://t.co/2FYdxjlFa3

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

✨Join us to celebrate author Anna Chatterton, 2024-25 Writer in Residence! This event will be held in-person at Shawn & Ed Brewing Co. in April. 15th, 7-9pm.

Registration Link: https://t.co/xYgavIqeBn

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

✨Susie O’Brien, author of the book What the World Might Look Like, will be in conversation with panellists Zishad Lak (Trent University), Tania Aguila-Way (University of Toronto), and Cate Sandilands (York University).

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

On March 31st, National Indigenous Languages Day, a new work of art created by Six Nations artist Courtney Skye will be unveiled in L.R. Wilson Hall. 

Please join us at 4pm on Monday March 31st in L.R. Wilson Hall for remarks, the unveiling, and refreshments.

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

Dr. Vinh Nguyen, McMaster ECS alum, launches his memoir The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse at the GritLit Festival on April 27 in Hamilton. A powerful story of escape from Vietnam and a father's disappearance.

📖 Details: https://t.co/vb9e8h8utP

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

🌟Those of you who have been in CNH 332 in recent days may have noticed a lovely change to the room’s décor.

It will stay up until the end of term, so drop in and have a look. Enjoy!🔅

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

Our ECS colleagues Susie O’Brien, Samuel Ikueze, and Zahra Tootonsab, guest editors for a special issue of Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, invite submissions on the issue’s theme: Overburden: Reading/Imagining Extra-Canadian Ecologies.”

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

🎉✨ Join us on March 12 to celebrate the book launch for Amanda Leduc, our amazing writer-in-residence, and her thrilling new book, WILD LIFE this Wednesday, March 12. Our event will take place in First Unitarian Church, 170 Dundurn Street South, food will be served 🍸

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

📣 Join us in celebrating the launch of Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Reflections! 🎉

We’re proud to share that Dr. Amber Dean has contributed a powerful chapter & will be speaking at the April 3rd launch event.

More info in poster🔅

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

Deyohahá:ge: Sharing the River of Life is edited by ECS retired faculty member Daniel Coleman, faculty member Ki'en Debicki, and School of Social Work and Indigenous Studies as well as Six Nations Polytechnic faculty member Bonnie M. Freeman.

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

✨ Wonderful News! ✨

📚 Dr. Henry Giroux, with his great passion for critical pedagogy and democratic education, has recently published two insightful articles exploring the intersection of democracy and education.Besides, he had an engaging interview with Travis Smiley.

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

🔥🎉 BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Tiffany Saddler! 🎉🔥
🚀 Her article, “The Seeds of Fascism”, was recently published on McMaster’s Public Intellectual Project! 📰✨
👉 Check out the full article here! 👇
🔗 https://t.co/L0Rb9JyrPZ
👏👏 Let’s celebrate this amazing achievement! 🥂📖🎊

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

🎺📢We are delighted to share that Mik Tampold, a Ph.D. student in the English Department, will be presenting at NeMLA in Philadelphia from March 6-9!💐

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

Congratulations to PhD candidate Zahra Tootonsab on winning a British Council Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities EARTH Scholarship!

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

Deyohahá:ge: Sharing the River of Life is edited by ECS retired faculty member Daniel Coleman, faculty member Ki'en Debicki, and School of Social Work and Indigenous Studies as well as Six Nations Polytechnic faculty member Bonnie M. Freeman.

[English & Cultural Studies, McMaster University @Mac_ECS]

Big, Exciting News for Dr. Eugenia Zuroski! 🎉
We are thrilled to announce that as the President of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Dr. Zuroski and her project team have recently been awarded a $555,000 USD grant from the Mellon Foundation!